Reception and Variations of Classical Narratology in Chinese Scholarship

In his article Reception and Variations of Classical Narratology in Chinese Scholarship Biwu Shang discusses the field\u27s impact starting in the 1970s to today. Shang\u27s survey includes translations of Western frameworks including introductions published during three waves (the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s respectively). While Shang posits that Chinese narratology owes a debt to English-language Western scholarship, as it stands in the last decades this is counterbalanced with the development of Chinese narratology and Western scholarship started to show interest in Chinese scholarship: indeed, the more exchanges between Chinese scholarship and that of the West develop, the more beneficial the dialogue will prove for both